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The problem has reached such epidemic proportions that whenever the police in London are not investigating former MPs and army officers for no reason at all, they are apparently under orders to pull over every Range Rover they see. Because chances are the man at the wheel is on his way to Albania. Or finding it is there and being pulled over every hundred yards by a policeman who will assume you are rich and that therefore you must at some point have done some inappropriate touching.

View Volvo XC90s for sale on driving. So if you are not going to buy a Range Rover, what other choices do you have? The old XC90 was a little different and in some ways even worse because this was a car you bought because it was a safe and practical space for your children. Which meant that it was always bought with just a hint of resentment. You still had fire in your loins. You could still ski and scuba dive, and at parties, women still found you attractive. You wanted a BMW M3.

But you had to have a Volvo because you needed seven seats for your kids. And it was the most practical seven-seater of them all.

And it had to be a diesel, really. The new XC90, however, is different. The Volvo is not like that at all. Because the car you see in the pictures this morning is a new version of the XC It has the same enormous body and the same spacious and wonderful interior. But this one, says Volvo, can do So what we have here is a large and sensible seven-seater estate car, with an excellent Scandi interior, that can keep up with a Ferrari but do Well, obviously, there are a few things I need to point out before you rush off to the Volvo dealer.

First of all, it can only do And certainly not if you go from mph in 5. The design is called the T8 Twin Engine, and I like that. The car has two engines. This car be charged from the mains, or by the petrol engine as you drive along.

Either way, it is not going to be a vehicle you can service at home. Even if you have the Haynes manual. Most of the time I used both. I decided after that to use the petrol engine as well. And the gearlever has to be nudged twice before it engages a gear. And that brings me back to the original question. Well, for refinement and imperiousness, the Range Rover, of course.

But in every other way, it has to be the Volvo. Especially the way it will always be where you left it. Because who in their right mind would ever want to steal it?

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